Separation
Term used to describe groups of German and Austrian artists who in 1890 resigned from the official academic institutions, aiming to promote the fashionable movements of the time (especially Impressionism and Art Nouveau). The most important of these movements were the movement of Munich (1892), of Vienna (1897) and of Berlin (1899). The most innovative of all, the Sezession of Berlin, was born as a reaction to the rejection of Munch's works from the Artists Union in Berlin in 1892. In 1910, the Berlin Sezession was split up and created the New Separation (Neue Sezession).